EUPHONIOUS (encore)

In this encore episode, host Lynn Hickernell explains the word, "euphonious" with some information about the brass instrument called a euphonium, and lots of examples of things that sound pleasing to different people, both because of the sounds themselves and because of what the sounds signify.  Concludes with the Lewis Carroll poem, "Jabberwocky."

SHOW NOTES:

"Euphonium Fanfare" by bone666138 on FreeSound.org 

"Holiday Brass Ensemble" by Doug Maxwell (YouTube Audio Library) 

Excerpt from Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons (Spring, movement 3) from Freemusicarchive.org 

"Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll 

 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves  
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:  
All mimsy were the borogoves,  
And the mome raths outgrabe. 

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!  
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!  
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun  
The frumious Bandersnatch!" 

He took his vorpal sword in hand:  
Long time the manxome foe he sought,  
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,  
And stood a while in thought. 

And, as in uffish thought he stood,  
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,  
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,  
And burbled as it came! 

One two! One two! And through and through  
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!  
He left it dead, and with its head  
He went galumphing back. 

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?  
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!  
Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"  
He chortled in his joy. 

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves  
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:  
All mimsy were the borogoves,  
And the mome raths outgrabe.

 

EUPHONIOUS (encore) episode transcript

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